The Unit System later known as the Carnegie System:
Description:
The Unit system was created by the Carnegie Foundation in 1906. It is a system that measures the amount of time that a student must spend on each subject, working with the instructor. Origionally, a student must spend 120 hours in a classroom per week in order to gain a "unit", later referred to as a Carnegie Unit. A student must have a certain amount of "units" in order to graduate high school or go onto college. When the system was first made it made colleges and universities make standards for accepting students into college, and because they were changing the standards to get into college, secondary schools had to change their curriculum to fit the requirements of colleges. What we Beleived Before:
Before the Carnegie Units we beleived that their were no time restaints to being in school and how much time you spend with an instuctor for each subject. There were no regulations, like there are today, with the number of credits you need to graduate. Universities and colleges did not require a student to spend a certain amount of time in each subject. Before this system their was a basis on testings and standards of students but no the number of hours we spend in school. What we believe after:
After the invention of the Carnegie Units we believed that students must spend a certain amount of time in the classroom and doing other work in order to graduate high school and get into college. We believe that weather or not the instruction is good or bad there must be a certain amount of time spent in the classroom in order for students to get a "unit" now often called a credit. There are now new standards for graduation and now to get into college you must graduate. This was only the start of requirments it took to graduate and go to college. Now it has developed and we have the SAT test and standardized testing also required to get into college most of the time. How do schools still act as though we have the "old" beleif?
Just because we have the standards that students have to be in class a certain amount and gain a certain amount of units to graduate does not mean that the quality of the education got better. Schools often feel if students earn the credits or the units they are getting the education they need and are ready for college but it does not measure the quality of the teachers and the education they recieve. The Carnegie Foundation wikipedia pbs
The Unit System later known as the Carnegie System:
Description:
The Unit system was created by the Carnegie Foundation in 1906. It is a system that measures the amount of time that a student must spend on each subject, working with the instructor. Origionally, a student must spend 120 hours in a classroom per week in order to gain a "unit", later referred to as a Carnegie Unit. A student must have a certain amount of "units" in order to graduate high school or go onto college. When the system was first made it made colleges and universities make standards for accepting students into college, and because they were changing the standards to get into college, secondary schools had to change their curriculum to fit the requirements of colleges.What we Beleived Before:
Before the Carnegie Units we beleived that their were no time restaints to being in school and how much time you spend with an instuctor for each subject. There were no regulations, like there are today, with the number of credits you need to graduate. Universities and colleges did not require a student to spend a certain amount of time in each subject. Before this system their was a basis on testings and standards of students but no the number of hours we spend in school.
What we believe after:
After the invention of the Carnegie Units we believed that students must spend a certain amount of time in the classroom and doing other work in order to graduate high school and get into college. We believe that weather or not the instruction is good or bad there must be a certain amount of time spent in the classroom in order for students to get a "unit" now often called a credit. There are now new standards for graduation and now to get into college you must graduate. This was only the start of requirments it took to graduate and go to college. Now it has developed and we have the SAT test and standardized testing also required to get into college most of the time.
How do schools still act as though we have the "old" beleif?
Just because we have the standards that students have to be in class a certain amount and gain a certain amount of units to graduate does not mean that the quality of the education got better. Schools often feel if students earn the credits or the units they are getting the education they need and are ready for college but it does not measure the quality of the teachers and the education they recieve.
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